Title IX

Definitions

Sexual Harassment

Sexual harassment is unwelcome, gender-based verbal or physical conduct that is, sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it, unreasonably interferes with, denies or limits someone’s ability to participate in or benefit from the college’s educational program and/or activities, and is based on power differentials (quid pro quo), the creation of a hostile environment, or retaliation.

Examples include but are not limited to the following:

An attempt to coerce an unwilling person into a sexual relationship

To repeatedly subject a person to egregious, unwelcome sexual attention

Experienced sexual harassment on campus

Non-Consensual Sexual Contact

Non-consensual sexual contact is any intentional sexual touching, however slight, with any object, by a man or a woman upon a man or a woman that is without consent and/or by force. The determination of whether an environment is “hostile” must be based on all of the circumstances. These circumstances could include frequency of conduct, nature and severity of the conduct and whether the conduct unreasonably interfered with the victim's educational performance.

Experienced non-consensual sexual contact on campus

Sexual Exploitation

Sexual exploitation occurs when a person takes non-consensual or abusive sexual advantage of another for his/her own advantage or benefit, or to benefit or advantage anyone other than the one being exploited, and that behavior does not otherwise constitute one of other sexual misconduct offenses.

Examples include but are not limited to the following:

Invasion of sexual privacy

Prostituting another person

Non-consensual video or audio-taping of sexual activity

Going beyond the boundaries of consent (such as letting your friends hide in the closet to watch you having consensual sex)

Engaging in voyeurism

Knowingly transmitting an STI or HIV to another person

Exposing one’s genitals in non-consensual circumstances

Inducing another to expose their genitals

Sexually-based stalking and/or bullying may also be forms of sexual exploitation